Patents Examined by Vishal Patel
  • Patent number: 9638327
    Abstract: Radial shaft seal includes an outer diameter member, a primary sealing lip, and a lip energizer. The primary sealing lip is spaced radially from the outer diameter member. The lip energizer is positioned radially between the outer diameter member and the primary sealing lip. The lip energizer moves to an engaging position with the outer diameter member forming a section of material between the outer diameter member and the primary sealing lip. The outer diameter member, the primary sealing lip, and the lip energizer can be formed from a single piece of material, and in one embodiment, an elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Engineered Seal Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Banowetz, Andrew Rommann, Mark Reimer, Dale Schumann
  • Patent number: 9618116
    Abstract: A piston assembly for a nailer is provided, and includes a piston body with an upper surface, a lower surface and a peripheral edge. A peripheral gland is located between the upper and lower surfaces, the gland having an inner closed end and defining an annular space. An annular piston seal is disposed in the gland, and a plurality of spaced air ports are disposed adjacent the peripheral edge, the ports each being in fluid communication with the gland. The gland and the seal are dimensioned so that during a power cycle of the nailer, pressurized air generated during a fastener driving stroke enters the ports and radially expands the seal for enhancing friction between the seal and a surrounding cylinder. During a return stroke, the seal is radially retracted within the gland to reduce friction between the seal and the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan Thomas Mina
  • Patent number: 9618115
    Abstract: A combined oil control ring comprising a pair of circular side rails each having a gap, and a waved spacer expander longitudinally sandwiched by the side rails, which has seating tabs for pushing inner surfaces of the side rails on the inner side, (a) the radial thickness a1 of the side rail being 50-90% of the height a9 of the spacer expander, or (b) the height a10 of the seating tab being 23-60% of the height a9 of the spacer expander.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA RIKEN
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yabune, Masaaki Fujita, Hiroyuki Sugihara
  • Patent number: 9605761
    Abstract: A seal assembly for sealing at least one negative or positive pressure zone which adjoins a surface which is perforated and moves in a movement direction in a machine for making paper, tissue or cardboard, has at least one sealing element which lies opposite the moving surface and is arranged in a receptacle which can be moved to change the format of the negative or positive pressure zone. In order to simplify the adjustability of the receptacle in order to position the sealing element, there is a signal transmitter which is connected directly or indirectly to the sealing element and the signal of which can be received on that side of the moving surface which faces away from the sealing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Peer Schotge, Susanne Berger, Klaus Hermann, Andreas Schäfer, Daniel Gronych
  • Patent number: 9598970
    Abstract: A brush seal includes a bristle part formed by multiple bristles attached to a stationary part between the stationary part and a rotational part that undergo relative motion by maintaining a space in between; and a back plate attached adjacent to the bristle part on its low-pressure side to restrict the movement of the bristle part. The brush seal for sealing a fluid between the stationary part and rotational part is characterized in that the bristle part is formed by the multiple bristles such that the multiple bristles arranged in a direction of fluid are mutually fixed between a base end and a free end to form planar bristles arranged continuously in layers in a circumferential direction to form the bristle part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 9599226
    Abstract: A pressure released wiper assembly is arranged to fit into a ring-shaped groove in a cylinder or at a piston rod. The pressure released wiper with a V- or U-shaped cross section includes an opening in the axial direction to a potential contaminated side of the wiper assembly, a ring shaped base portion, a ring disk shaped rear portion, a lip portion, one or more through openings from the opening through the rear portion to a gap formed between the cylinder wall and the rod or piston outside the ring-shaped groove, and one or more filters covering at least the one or more through openings to the potential contaminated side of the wiper assembly in the filter holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SEAL ENGINEERING AS
    Inventors: Julian Putkowski, Hans Fredrik Sandberg
  • Patent number: 9598125
    Abstract: A seal structure is provided to block a clearance between a rotational casing and a fixed housing for driving a crawler of a crawler vehicle. A seal ring is held in a first annular holding groove provided in the fixed housing together with a first O-ring that biases the seal ring toward the outside of the first holding groove. A second holding groove having an opening facing the first holding groove is provided in the rotational casing to hold a slide ring having a higher rigidity than that of the seal ring together with a second O-ring that biases the slide ring toward the seal ring. A foreign object such as mud is thereby prevented from invading a gear chamber without increasing a frictional loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: KYB Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Hirota, Chikashi Imoto, Kazumi Ito, Junichiro Sugimoto, Eishin Noguchi, Kaori Kawabata
  • Patent number: 9593787
    Abstract: A pipe sealing gasket is shown which is designed to be received within a raceway provided within a socket end of a female bell plastic pipe end which is assembled with a mating male pipe end to form a plastic pipe joint. The raceway is preformed about the gasket during the pipe belling operation. The gasket has a rubber body portion which is reinforced by a hard plastic band formed as a series of integral, spaced wedges which are interconnected by a flexible ribbon. The hard plastic band acts to prevent extrusion of the gasket during a variety of pressure conditions as well as preventing displacement during field assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: S & B Technical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillermo Monteil, Keith Steinbruck
  • Patent number: 9574665
    Abstract: The invention relates to a slide ring seal, and in particular a running gear seal, at least comprising an angled slide ring and/or counter ring, the radial leg of which forms a sliding region, and the axial leg of which forms a seating for a sealing element, which radially outside of the sliding region, is provided with a projection that at least partially overlaps the radial leg, forming a secondary seal, wherein at least in the region of the radial leg, the projection is provided with a profile, which is supported on the outer circumferential surface of the radial leg, forming anti-contamination lips in the installed state of the slide ring seal, and in particular running gear seal, that profile being supported on the outer circumferential surface of the radial leg when viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL BURSCHEID GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Dengler
  • Patent number: 9568105
    Abstract: A lip-type seal shaft seal device equipped with a lip seal for sealing a rotary member and a stationary member concentrically disposed to the inside and outside in a radial direction, has a plurality of aeration-creating parts for creating aeration through relative rotational sliding of the lip seal and the rotary member, formed in separated fashion in the circumferential direction on the outside peripheral surface of the rotary member. The aeration-creating parts are configured from a plurality of fine grooves arranged in the circumferential direction, extending along the axial direction of the rotary member. The lip of the lip seal extends towards the outside atmosphere side, leaving a portion of the aeration-creating parts at the sealed fluid side in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Oshima, Masamitsu Sanada, Takeshi Hosoe
  • Patent number: 9551420
    Abstract: A sealing ring (10) includes in a diametrical cross-section a body section (12), angularly spaced sealing legs (16) and (18) that extend from the body section (12) and angularly spaced sealing legs (22) and (24) that also extend from the body section (12). Each sealing leg (16, 18, 22, 24) extends to a beveled end (28, 30, 32, 34), respectively. Beveled ends (28, 30, 32, 34) form a seal with a surface when sealing ring (10) is subjected to compressive forces. Sealing legs (16) and (24) are coplanar. Sealing legs (18) and (22) are coplanar. A first centering leg (40) extends from the body section (12) and is between sealing legs (16) and (22). A second centering leg (44) extends from the body section (12) and is between sealing legs (18) and (24). The first and second centering legs (40) and (44) are coplanar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: American Seal and Engineering Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark W. Armitage, Dallas Conway
  • Patent number: 9533629
    Abstract: A seal assembly is mounted to a floor portion of an RV with a slide out room. The slide out room has a wall and a floor that is separated from the floor of the RV. The seal assembly has a wear bar with a ramped surface extending up from a flange at an obtuse angle, terminating in a flat top surface which then terminates in a wall that extends downwardly to another flange. The seal has a flexible wiper that seals to the slide out room floor. The seal assembly includes a splash shield with a resilient end that seals to the wall of the slide out room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Lifetime Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Edwin E. Ksiezopolski, Kevin J. Ksiezopolski
  • Patent number: 9516948
    Abstract: A touch-latch device used in furniture especially for initial opening of an opening furniture component, comprising a housing with an axially arranged groove, in which a push element is slidingly arranged, said element being actuated by a helical spring and controllable by a dual-position guide mechanism comprising a cam groove guide and an S-pin, wherein the device comprises a push element controlled by two dual-position guide mechanisms, wherein each cam groove guide of a dual-position guide mechanism is arranged on a lateral side of the push element and the S-pin is pivoted in the lateral wall of the groove of the housing, and that the push element is provided at its free end with a regulation plug arranged by means of a bolted joint, said plug being displaceable in axial direction, wherein the axial displacement of the regulation plug is limited by an arrester arranged therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Titus d.o.o. Dekani
    Inventor: Carlo Migli
  • Patent number: 9506564
    Abstract: A plurality of concave portion to be spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction through a pillar portion is formed in an inner circumferential side of a side surface of a seal ring mounted in a shaft groove formed in an outer circumferential surface of a shaft. The concave portion including a deepest portion, and two inclined portions, connects the inclined portion positioned at an opposite side in a rotational direction and the adjacent pillar portion with a curved surface having a shape convex, and further, makes a width in the circumferential direction of the inclined portion of the rotational direction side smaller than a width in the circumferential direction of the inclined portion of the opposite side in the rotational direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA RIKEN
    Inventors: Junya Nagai, Mika Saito, Tomoya Shibano
  • Patent number: 9505357
    Abstract: A seal assembly is mounted to a floor portion of an RV with a slide out room. The slide out room has a wall and a floor that is separated from the floor of the RV. The seal assembly has a wear bar having an arcuate top and a wiper that seals to the slide out room floor. The seal assembly includes a splash shield with a resilient end that seals to the wall of the slide out room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Lifetime Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Edwin E Ksiezopolski
  • Patent number: 9506567
    Abstract: A thickness dimension of a peripheral edge of a seal element held by an inner brim wall portion of an outer case and an inner brim wall portion of an inner case is set to be larger than a thickness dimension of a remaining portion of the seal element, and a ring concave groove is formed on the peripheral edge of the seal element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CABLE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Nobukazu Fujii
  • Patent number: 9500012
    Abstract: An outer peripheral portion of a hook in a lock device is formed with a recess, which is formed to extend inwardly from a peripheral surface, and a first face, which is formed at a side of a rotation direction toward the unlock position of the hook than the recess and intersects the rotation direction of the hook, and a pawl is formed with a protrusion, which is detachably engaged with the recess of the hook, and a second face, against which the first face of the hook is capable of abutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9500157
    Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to make it possible to perform pressurized leak tests on open loop chain case-side oil seal beads. The purpose is achieved with a cylinder head gasket, which is fitted between the cylinder block and the cylinder head and seals the three-surface sealing region obtained by combining the cylinder block, the cylinder head and the chain case, and in which an open-loop chain case-side oil seal bead that is open toward the chain case is provided in the chain case-side end of the gasket. The cylinder head gasket is characterized in that a closed-loop leak test bead is provided in the cylinder head gasket along a chain case-side oil seal bead and a leak test pressure supply path for supplying leak test pressure to the space enclosed by the leak test bead is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Namieki Osawa, Misaki Gushiken
  • Patent number: 9488278
    Abstract: A static sealing device for a wheel hub comprising an inner ring associated with an outer ring of a constant velocity joint coupled with the wheel hub. A first sealing assembly is integrated between the inner ring and an outer ring of the wheel hub to protect respective rolling bodies. A second sealing assembly is integrated between the wheel hub and the outer ring of the joint. The first sealing assembly includes a shield fitted to the inner ring with a sleeve portion thereof and a flange portion extending towards the joint carrying an annular signal generating element and a tubular support element which projects axially from the flange portion. The second sealing assembly includes a tubular core having opposite ends embedded in an elastomeric material forming a sealing lip towards the joint and an elastically deformable annular tooth for engaging with a complimentary feature of the tubular support element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Fabio Nosenzo, Vincenzo Ferraro
  • Patent number: 9482343
    Abstract: Disclosed is a piston ring for engine that includes chromium (Cr) coating layer coated on the surface of a base material of the piston ring of an engine; a chromium nitride (CrN) coating layer; and a silicon-incorporated diamond-like carbon (Si-DLC) coating layer, which is formed on the CrN coating layer, and contains Si component of about 3˜10 at %, and a method for manufacturing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: So Jung Shim, Jeong Uk An